Although I have worked on complex business problems and been part of top initiatives at global clients, one challenge has always been actually explaining what I do for work to my closest friends and family who are not in the same profession. My name is Alex, and I’m a Project Manager.

Over the past six weeks, I’ve been using examples from Star Wars to introduce Project Management concepts to an audience who may otherwise dismiss what we do in our industry. If you look at The Office, Office Space, or The IT Crowd, most of the conversation makes fun of the people and the work they do. I’ve been reaching out in a different way to secretly educate while entertaining. I hope you have as much fun reading these articles as I did writing them.

“The decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of people we are; what he is destined to be.” Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek TNG, Measure of a Man